To prevent wildfires, L.A. wants to make it easier to clear homeless encampments
LA TimesA scorched pot is among the few remnants of a homeless encampment where investigators concluded the Skirball fire started in December 2017. With wildfire season underway, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday announced a plan to make it easier for authorities to clear homeless encampments in severe fire zones. The proposed ordinance, which will go before the City Council’s Public Safety Committee next week, would change the way the Los Angeles Police Department informs people that they must leave remote areas where the risk of a fire is most extreme. “These campfires don’t just have dire consequences for homeless Angelenos that live in remote brush areas,” Garcetti said Wednesday, flanked by the Los Angeles Fire Department’s fleet of helicopters and City Council members at the Van Nuys Airport. “They also threaten to leave more Angelenos homeless when their lives and properties are consumed by flames.” The Skirball fire moved through the hills of one of L.A.’s richest ZIP Codes — in Bel-Air — and destroyed six homes.
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